Newborns

Las Vegas Newborn Photographer

Wow, life has been a little bit crazy lately and it’s taken me a few months to post these images of our sweet new girl, Sylvie Violet. She was born on April 22nd, 2016 weighing in at 5 pounds, 11.6 ounces and 17 inches long – a little peanut, but full of personality! You will see that in these photos of her. She is not lacking for character, personality, and spunk. As a Las Vegas Newborn Photographer, I was determined to shoot Sylvie’s newborn pictures myself. I managed this by spreading them out over several weeks, and doing several mini shoots for variety.

Sweet little Sylvie, unbeknownst to us during my pregnancy, was born with a congenital heart defect. Did you know that roughly 1/110 babies is born with a congenital heart defect? I had no idea how common it was. We found out about Sylvie’s condition when she failed the pulse ox test as part of her newborn discharge screening. This test is a very simple test that measures the oxygen saturation in your body – in a healthy person it should be above 97%. Sylvie’s sats were in the 80’s. It’s amazing to me that is little as 2 years ago, this test was not part of the routine newborn screening, and in some hospitals, it is STILL not offered. That is so scary to me! Had Sylvie not had this test, she would have been discharged as a healthy newborn.

Sylvie was taken from us and flown via helicopter 3 hours away to the Phoenix Children’s Hospital, where she was immediately swarmed by doctors and nurses. She was hooked up to everything, and tests were ran. This was an extremely scary time for us. She spent 12 days in the NICU. Sylvie has something called a ‘mixed total anomalous pulmonary venous return’, or TAPVR. She will be okay, but she will need open heart surgery when she’s 4-6 months old to repair this so she can lead a full and active life.

To add to this story, our 15 year old son Damien’s dream for the past 4 years is to be a pediatric heart surgeon when he grows up. Life comes full circle.

Sylvie is the sweetest little soul – she seems wise beyond her days and is so full of personality. You can see it in her eyes. We are so blessed to have her join our family, and she has no idea just how loved she is. One of my goals with her newborn photos was to take a special picture of her with each of her 10 older siblings. I have tried this with previous children and always seem to fall short, but I accomplished this with Sylvie. This will be a long post, and each of these images is so treasured and special to me. I will come back and edit it to add one of Sylvie with her Daddy and myself as soon as I take them.

In no particular order…please welcome Sylvie Violet Holloway to this lovely place called Earth. Each of these images was created with so much love.

And now for the sibling shots – in order from oldest to youngest, this is Clint with Sylvie. <3

And Calista…

Damien, our future pediatric heart surgeon, who has already forged a special bond with his new sister… <3

Theron and Sylvie…

Adrian and Sylvie…

Quentin (aka Dewey) and Sylvie…

Camille & Sylvie…

Octavia & Sylvie; I got a little carried away with these! There were too many cute ones to just edit one…

Elliott & Sylvie…

Gabriel (aka Tiny) and Sylvie…

And one of Tiny by himself because, well, he’s adorable and I can’t help it! haha

And finally, Sylvie with ALL 10 of her older siblings together! I adore this and already have it hanging on my wall. <3 Next up – I need a new family photo. Any volunteers?

I’m also including a few photos of Sylvie taken outdoors while we were in Montana a few weeks ago. I love outdoor newborn photos so much! She was a little beyond the newborn phase here, but I just love how these came out. Look how red her hair looks in these! I do see a lot of red in her hair in person, but I think a lot of this was the lighting in this particular location. Either way, she’s such a sweet girl!

Sylvie & Daddy

I swore I’d never jump on the rainbow baby bandwagon, but alas….I had to for Sylvie. She came to us after 2 back to back miscarriages – thus, the rainbow after the storm. The heart symbolizes the fact that she is a strong, brave heart baby, as well as the immense love we have for her, and how deeply we wanted her and waited for her. She is surrounded by so much love, she has no idea yet. I tried to put my own spin on this type of shot and this is what I came up with. <3

My sweet friend Becca of Zoe and Oliver made this beautiful pink knit ensemble for Sylvie – I think this just might be her color, look how it brings out her eyes! Becca is a fellow heart mom and has been such a kind friend and wonderful support for Sylvie and I.

Her pout is just TOO CUTE!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read Sylvie’s story and look at her newborn photos.

Lisa Holloway of LJHolloway Photography is a Las Vegas Newborn Photographer. LJHolloway Photography is located just south of Las Vegas, Nevada. At LJHolloway Photography, you will find fine art maternity, newborn, baby, child, family, and high school senior photography in Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin, and the surrounding areas.

Lisa is also available for portrait sessions in the Boulder, Kingman, Laughlin, Lake Havasu City, Bullhead City, Flagstaff, Williams, Prescott, Phoenix, and Sedona areas. LJHolloway Photography works with clients in all of Northern Arizona and Southern Nevada. Lisa is also available for travel. Please inquire for travel rates if you live outside of the Las Vegas area.

Las Vegas Newborn Photographer

Welcome to the world, sweet baby Jalynn! What a beautiful, precious, and oh so loved little girl! <3 As a Las Vegas Newborn Photographer, I am so honored to be able to capture these precious, fleeting moments in the life of not only a brand new baby, but in a family who has now grown in size and love.

I’ve done several sessions for Shellie’s family over the years and was so excited to document their newest baby girl. You can see a session I did with big sister Rylie in the beautiful Arizona wildflowers HERE. I think Rylie is pretty excited to have a new baby sister! <3 When Jalynn gets a little bigger, I’ll have to do a sisters session in the wildflowers. 🙂

I really embrace more natural, organic images in my newborn photography, and think that this shoot reflects that style perfectly. I hope that you enjoy them! If you are expecting a baby this year, please contact me soon! I am expecting my own baby girl in late April/early May so I will only be taking client sessions until the first week of April, and then returning to work again in August.

Congratulations again Dennis and Shellie! I had a wonderful time doing these for you!

Lisa Holloway of LJHolloway Photography is a Las Vegas Newborn Photographer. LJHolloway Photography is located just south of Las Vegas, Nevada. At LJHolloway Photography, you will find fine art maternity, newborn, baby, child, family, and high school senior photography in Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin, and the surrounding areas.

Lisa is also available for portrait sessions in the Boulder, Kingman, Laughlin, Lake Havasu City, Bullhead City, Flagstaff, Williams, Prescott, Phoenix, and Sedona areas. LJHolloway Photography works with clients in all of Northern Arizona and Southern Nevada. Lisa is also available for travel. Please inquire for travel rates if you live outside of the Las Vegas area.

I recently had the opportunity to shoot the Seattle Mariners’ Dustin Ackley’s sweet new baby boy, Parson. What a little love he is! He surprised mom and dad by arriving a few weeks early, so we rushed to set the session up while they were in between houses in the Phoenix area for spring training. I do not shoot a lot of newborns, but this little guy couldn’t have done a better job on his first day as a little model. He was so sweet, sleepy, and happy for me – I did not hear him cry a single time in the 4 hours I was there. What a little angel!

Thank you so much Justine and Dustin for allowing me into your home to take these special images of Parson for you. It was wonderful meeting you and I would love to work with you again as Parson grows. I hope you love these images as much as I do! <3

Please take a minute and check out more of my newborn work in my Las Vegas Newborn Photographer photo gallery! This is such a fleeting and precious time in your child’s life that goes in the blink of an eye. Please contact me while you are still pregnant to schedule your newborn photo session!

It is no secret that it is hard to photograph your own newborn. With the exhaustion of having a new baby in the house, having just gone through childbirth, and with other family responsibilities on the table, sometimes your love for photography and desire to document your baby’s first days can get put on the back burner. That has been me so many times! This time, I vowed to really make an effort to capture Gabriel’s first precious days. A baby’s time being a newborn is so fleeting and I want to document all of it. As a project within a project, I have decided to create a baby album for Gabriel, complete with his newborn photos, photos of him with each of his siblings, as well as a group photo of all the children. So far, I’m about halfway done. Some kids are off doing other things for the summer so it’s an on-going project, but I WILL complete it this time.

Consider this part I and stay tuned for part II. 🙂

This is my sweet boy, Adrian. He has a 7th birthday coming up in about 3 weeks! I love how they are both grinning here…

My gorgeous daughter, Calista…I love this image more than words can say.

Sweet little Elliott…I won’t lie, we worried a little bit about how Elliott would handle being displaced as the baby of the family. Our worries were unfounded though as Elliott absolutely LOVES his new baby brother! Too much sometimes. 😉 Elliott is learning body parts now and was showing me baby’s nose…

Sweet, sensitive Millie…my girlie girl. She has such a tender heart. I love how she is holding her baby brother in such a protective embrace here.

Precious Octavia…such a sweet, silly girl! Octavia celebrated her fourth birthday the day before Gabriel was born.

Calista took this for me! I think I need to hire her on as my assistant asap! She did an awesome job. I’m not too keen on being in front of the camera, but I can say that this image is, without a doubt, my favorite picture of myself EVER. That’s saying something – she did an amazing job!

And a few photos of Gabriel solo…I couldn’t resist. 🙂

And just because doing this pose on ONE blanket wasn’t enough, he actually let us move him to a totally different blanket. I’m having way too much fun, can you tell? 🙂

I love this one of Dewey and Gabriel. <3

And yes, he really *does* wake up sometimes. Are you looking, Mom? 🙂 He’s also not keen on wearing ‘bonnets’ (Jeff’s words). lol

And don’t quote me on this, but I *think* this is going to be my announcement. My poor friends are probably sick to death of me going on about this announcement, but it is hard when you have a strong emotional attachment to ALL of the photos. What, people don’t need 50 pictures of my baby for their fridge? 🙂 It is SO much easier designing client announcements! A huge thank you goes out to Kim of Laugh & Grow Press for her help and for the amazingly sweet, simple, and very versatile templates. You can purchase these templates on their website – use the code: ljholloway20 for 20% off! Go and ‘like’ them on Facebook too – let them know I sent you. 😉